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(CNN)What's the point of a party if you can't invite your friends? PresidentDonald Trump is trying to turn the off again, on again, off again G7 summit this year into a G11 -- at least. Maybe he's looking for moral support. Global gatherings in the Trump era have been contentious affairs, and as often as not, he has berated allies...

WASHINGTON: US PresidentDonald Trump spoke with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin over the phone on Monday and discussed plans of expanding the Group of 7 to include a more diverse gathering of countries, such as India and Russia, that would better represent the global response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The development comes two days after...

MOSCOW: Russia has reported the highest daily spike in coronavirus deaths once again on Friday, with health officials registering 232 deaths in the last 24 hours, which bought the country's total to 4,374. Russia's...

Jeff Sessions, the former attorney general forced out by Donald Trump, has taken to Twitter to plead with his onetime boss to stop endorsing his electoral rival. The 73-year-old resigned his long-held Senate seat in Alabama to take the attorney general job in 2017, but after he was made to resign a year later he is now running to regain the seat....

Parting with years of precedent, China abandoned its growth target for 2020, in acknowledgement that there is "great uncertainty" facing the country as it looks to restart its economy after the coronavirus outbreak. In his annual report to Beijing's Congress on Friday, premier Li Keqiang said that the country has made major achievements in its...

Donald Trump has warned that “voting is an honour” as he continued attacks on states attempting to introduce postal voting at November’s 2020 election. Mr Trump said on Wednesday that voters should not send back “a pile of stuff” - meaning a postal ballot - as he moves to discredit the voting method used worldwide. “If you can you should go and...

Volkswagen has withdrawn a car advert and apologised after it appeared to show a white power gesture and racial slur. The ad showed a pair of giant white hands moving a black man away from a new yellow Volkswagen Golf before flicking him into a café called “PetitColon” – French for little colonist. Commentators on Twitter and Instagram also noted...

Russia on Wednesday reported its highest ever daily coronavirus death toll of 135, bringing the country's total fatalities to nearly 3,000. Overall infections also passed 300,000, but the number of active virus cases in the country dropped for the first time. Russia has recorded far fewer deaths than other countries with large outbreaks, but...

A Virginia family stumbled-upon almost $million in cash when they picked-up two bags they thought contained waste on a weekend drive. David and Emily Schantz were driving near their Caroline County address on Saturday when their pickup truck ran-over two bags. Ms Schantz, having seen other cars swerve around the bags on a central Virginia highway,...

Far-right and neo-Nazi groups are spreading racist and false claims about a black jogger who was fatally shot in Georgia to promote their agendas on social media platforms, according to organisations that monitor online extremist activity. The campaigns gained traction after the release this month of a video showing the moments before Ahmaud Arbery...

London (CNN)Spit into a cup when you land in an airport, and your DNA is stored. Every phone in every city talks to every other nearby device, their exchanges floating somewhere in the ether. Cross-border travel is enabled only by governments sharing data about millions of private movements. These are all possible visions of a future that the...

MOSCOW: President will address the nation about the on Monday, as a new record of daily confirmed infections was set and of deaths surpassed 2,000. Putin will speak about the deadly pandemic and measures to support the Russian economy, the said in a statement. He is expected to announce a decision on the...

(CNN)Mika is worried. As a sex worker in Japan, she used to see three or four clients a day -- then the coronavirus pandemic hit. Now, with people staying home and avoiding close contact, she's out of clients and out of money. With no savings or other sources of income, Mika says she is living off borrowed money. She has tried to find other jobs,...

MOSCOW: Spring is not turning out the way Russian PresidentVladimir Putin might have planned it. A nationwide vote on April 22 was supposed to finalize sweeping constitutional reforms that would allow him to stay in power until 2036, if he wished. But after the coronavirus spread in Russia, that plebiscite had to be postponed - an action so abrupt...